[Sarah28137]

I think a lot of this has to do with having more exposure to other countries simply because places like California and Oregon and New York and New Jersey have ports and are physically closer to other countries. Being close to other countries meant (before the internet and television became so huge) that you were the first to be exposed to ideas, fashions, foods, etc from other countries. I don’t think this is so much the case anymore, but much of it still seems to hold true. Two of my best friends are originally from the midwest, but have both moved to extreme east and west coasts, and both tend to use the term ‘midwestern’ in a self-depricating yet amusing way. I’ve travelled to various parts of the midwest (Chicago, Boise, Denver, St. Louis, and Salt Lake City if the latter counts), and while I have to say that the people I’ve met there have been overall much more polite than those I’ve interacted with on the west coast, the population and mentality just seems too homogenous for me to ever want to live there.

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Name : Sarah28137, Race : Asian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 25, City : San Francisco area, State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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